Bird play was interrupted by the rumble of a train, and I’d imagined the bridge in the foto above was derelict! It was long.

Here’s the cropped version of the foto above I asked you to look at. Notice the horizontal break in the trees? I didn’t get to that side, but once there was a

canal there, the Genesee River Canal. Click here to see the same ridge from more or less the same vantage point about 150 years ago. And the tugs looked like this.

And that bridge . . here’s what it took to build its predecessor.

The beauty of the Genesee River convinced me to follow it up toward Lake Ontario. Here’s High Falls in Rochester . . . and another train crossing it, this one with containers ultimately bound for . . . China via the sixth boro, which

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mage– we share tat kind of envy . . . i have to admit. last night i was looking at a studebaker truck (yup!!) on the internet. what’s left of the canal? i didn’t have time to explore there, but i plan to once the leaves are off the trees.

NIce Ride, i’m partial to the Lhead Ford F1 ala Sanford and Son. However, I really hate ford’s commercials on the TV, and Therefore would probably never ever get a Ford! GM’s are endemic to Cuba, and all the car shows have 350 cid chevy engines, even in fords? That trestle looks like the Moodna viaduct, a nice Metro North, NJT ride to Port Jervis takes you over that trestle, and through the Otisville tunnel This fall the foliage and the Port Jervis ride!
Thx for sharing